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The scene while waiting for Jeremiah Wright to speak at the National Press Club

By Sun-Times Wire

WASHINGTON–The Rev. Jeremiah Wright will speak soon at the National Press Club. The ballroom is packed with people here for a black church conference, guests and reporters.

Here from Chicago: Wright’s wife and two of his daughters; Dr. Conrad Worrill, the National Chairman of the National Black United Front and Father Michael Pfleger, from St. Sabrina Church on Chicago’s South Side.

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Crime

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Autopsy shows Sonya Massey was killed by a gunshot under her eye

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